Spiderman in War Protest
A self-styled Spiderman defied strong winds to scale a 47-storey Paris skyscraper without safety equipment on Tuesday to protest the war in Iraq. Frenchman Alain Robert had onlooking office workers and police on tenterhooks as he slowly worked his way up the 180 meter-high TotalFinaElf skyscraper in the La Defense business center in the west of the city. "It's as mad as the war itself," said Fatisha Amraoui, nervously puffing on a cigarette as she watched Robert climb. "I think it'll take more than this to make an impression on Bush and Blair, but it's good all the same. It makes you think."
yeah, it makes me think... total, fina, elf... petroleum companies that buy oil from saddam. So, here we have a madman protesting the war by climbing the building that houses the company that buys all of its oil from saddam,(the reason Chirac doesn't waqnt war with iraq in the first place).
I'm not sure if this is irony, or just plain obvious idiocy. I think the mad climber should read the sign in the lobby next time he wants to climb a building.
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